This Gator Growls

In a recent Alligator article, it was made news that the University may veto a bail-out appropriations from SG funds to the cash-strapped (and perennially bad) Gator Growl performance.

Gator Growl is a UF pep-rally held during Homecoming Week, and the largest of its kind that's student-run. But it's leaders come out of the semi-secretive Florida Blue Key organization. FBK's nature as a largely private leadership honorary has always made some student leaders wary of it, and the idea that we'd bail them out to help offer free tickets is, shall I say, a little odd and quite incestuous given FBK also dominates the $11 million Student Government budget.

So, a part of me is smiling over this controversy, even though the UF Administration has in the past been rather close to the SG leadership, to the point of redacting hardly sensitive information about the firing of a low-level SG Cabinet member. But one does have to wonder if this budget crunch will put Gator Growl on a path toward its demise...